International property investors are today being offered an opportunity to invest in a choice of one and two-bedroom apartments and penthouses in the exclusive Kavarna Bay resort development located on Bulgaria’s up coming north-eastern Black Sea Coast.
Continue reading ‘Beachfront Kavarna Bay Resort First Phase Launch’

The Cape Verde Islands until very recently have been a little known archipelago. As popularity has soared so to have the numbers of Cape Verde estate agents. If you are looking for a cape verde estate agent or developer then look no further as we have listed popular estate agents in Cape Verde below: Continue reading ‘Popular Cape Verde Estate Agents’

The Economist’s “Pocket World in Figures 2008” was published last week, eagerly anticipated by property watchers all around the world. The guide, which comprehensively analyses 183 countries across 200 categories, has become the mini tome of choice for all of those interested in keeping an eye on how the world’s facts and figures shape up year after year. Not to mention finding out whose riding high in the property stakes.

Continue reading ‘All Eyes on the Index’

A guide to buying in Slovenia (Slovenia Times)
Private island for sale (Newsday)
Speculators leave India’s Real Estate market (Livemint)
Has Japan’s recent real estate surge come to an end? (FT)
Big Plans for Victoria (RatandMouse)
Emaar launch yet more homes (Albawaba.com)

In September 2006 we speculated as to whether Rightmove.co.uk would add any new technology to their site on the back of surge of new startup entrants into the UK property search space such as Nestoria, Ononemap, Zoomf,  Extate and Properazzi to name just a few, or whether in the absence of any real threat to its huge market dominance has led Rightmove to rest on its laurels and ignore its fledgling competitors.

Over the past year, the face of UK online property search has seen remarkable change so on the back of record half-year results out last week from Rightmove showing yet another increase in revenues up some 68 per cent to £25.4 million, we thought we’d revisit Rightmove to see if the marketplace giant with 19 of the top 20 UK homebuilders and 9 out of 10 properties listed in the UK has chosen to up its online game or is still just master of all it surveys. Continue reading ‘Are Rightmove Playing Real Estate Catch Up?’

The majority of us who have been looking to buy a property in the last few years will at some point, have conducted our property search on the web. Online property search has advanced immensely since 2000, largely attributed to surging internet adoption rates and the pace of internet technologies such as Web 2.0 which are taking huge steps towards property search utopia. Adam is joined by Ed Freyfogle of Nestoria.es, the latest spin-off of Nestoria.co.uk a property search website which launched online just last summer intially covering the London property marketplace.

Ask yourself this, when you search for properties online, do you really value the time you spend searching for the ideal property? Nestoria believe the process can be made easier and are working towards intelligent property search engines that learn from their users to help improve the search experience for each and every user, constantly serving up an improved property search offering. Continue reading ‘Property Search Podcast with Ed Freyfogle of Nestoria’

We thought we’d start the week of with a spot of light-hearted Monday morning humour. They say an Englishman’s home is his castle but in the rest of the world it seems…. Anything goes!

Check out some of the fruitcake houses I found people call home.

This house is like a Soviet bunker. Continue reading ‘The World’s Wackiest Foreign Homes’